Pranksters try to steal ‘Virgin Mary’!

Four young thieves who were walking around Whalley having stolen a 5ft. stone statue of the Virgin Mary were confronted by the owners’ neighbour.

The three men and one woman, who appeared to be drunk, tried to escape with the statue stolen from the garden of a house in The Sands, Whalley, but their plan was foiled when the owner’s neighbour spotted it and confronted them.